Cope harder pasta eaters/s

From an European perspective, it has always been a point of divergence with my American friends and colleagues. They always want the fattier, more sugar-full version arguing there's more taste and it's "real food", but in our point of view it taste like junk and don't compete a second with a home-made traditional one (and are pricier !).
- That. Unless Domino’s has a completely different pricing strategy in the US, They are the expensive option.
  I like eating dominos once in a while, it’s a great sweet fatty snack, but it’s not cheaper.
  
  Can't speak for the US as a whole but everywhere I've lived Domino's is the cheapest. I can get a medium 2 topping pizza at dominoes for $6.99. We have 3 family run traditional pizza places within driving distance of where I live, for a 2 topping medium pizza they cost: $14.75, $15.99, or $18.99.
  
  It’s the second cheapest here if you for something you don’t cook at home after buying it frozen.
  Little Ceaser’s would give an Italian aneurysm, buts like 5 bucks for a week of calories.
  
  Domino's is way cheaper than an actual Italian pizza in the US.
  It's also shit pizza, I'd rather buy a frozen one and put my own stuff on it. Then it's cheaper and better.
- Sugar is overrated AF.
  
  Sugar is the devil. The devil is actually quite sweet. I also enjoy putting the devil in my mouth.
- That’s my point about Italy having better ingredients. The assembling of the ingredients is the issue. This is why authentic Italian-American pizza is the best. The bougie places shell out for imported ingredients and cook them in the American style.
  
  When I was in Venice I only tried a Diavolo at a local restaurant. It certainly could be my American expectations but nothing amazed me about it; definitely feel like a bit more could be done to mesh the ingredients. Or, maybe my American brain just craved sweeter, cheesier stuff.
  Then again, I went to Germany and the bread there was fantastic compared to America, so unless they boarded the sugar train it feels like there must be something that can be done right with good ingredients.
  
  Im not saying you should go to naples to try the real one, but have you at least ever been to Italy?

This reads like such astroturfing advertisement. Also it's just fucking sad if you really think domino's is the height of pizza.
- Big Pizza infiltrating Lemmy.. stay alert soldier!
- it is pretty obviously a joke at dominos expense
- Yes, lemmy is large enough to get astroturfing bots now. Congratulations you are very smart.
  
  It's embarrassing how butthurt people are about this post. Euros can't take a joke.

Seeing Dominoes as the standard for American pizza fills me with sadness and shame.
Yes, I know it’s only a shitpost, but still.
- Deep Dish erasure. It’s like our only original pizza contribution.
  The perfidious Swede is known for curried bananas on their pizza. It could be worse.
  
  Well, no. That would be tomatoes. Italians (and the world) have the indigenous peoples of the Americas to thank for that.

What do you mean expensive? A Margherita is usually around 7 euros
- in the US they are bougie as shit and the cheapest are usually $17 with the average around $25. And they are usually much shittier than any you'll find in Italy.
- I paid 21 USD* (~19 EUR) for a margarita in North-West America yesterday :(
  It was pretty good, but it was also small (12"/30cm).
  that's before 10% VAT and 15% mandatory tip - you can basically add another 5.
  
  What the fuck
  
  Wow ok that's steep (also margarita is Spanish not Italian)
- Who's talking about Africa?
  
  They use euros in Africa? We are talking about Italian pizza so I'm talking about Italy

Okay, I'm going to be that guy because I don't see it being pointed out already.
That's not actual Italian pizza, it's still an Americanized version.
Real Italian pizza is so thin you have to eat it with a fork and knife and it's meant for one person, not to share. The one in the picture is still way too thick to be real Italian.
But real Italian pizza in Italy really is on another level. It's so god damned good, it makes all pizza in America look like cardboard with sauce.
- "Real italian pizza is so thin" Yeah that's just not true, there are many different types of Italian pizza, the most standard of which is like the one pictured. The form varies in popularity by region.
  
  The Napoli pizza portofoglio is the best
- Exactly, plus it's usually cheap as hell too, along with being mind blowing-ly good.
  Not everyone gets the chance to go to Italy though, so just enjoy the pizza and op should stop gate keeping a delicious food.
  
  I’m not gatekeeping, I’m countering the papist menace known as “single serve” pizzas.
  It’s part of the anti-Freemason plot to prevent us eating communally in order to reduce obesity amongst alter boys.
- i’ve had real italian pizza, in italy. it was fucking delicious, but it doesn’t make the best pies i’ve had in places like new york or chicago taste like cardboard with sauce. some places in nyc can absolutely go toe-to-toe with italy.
- Thicc pizza is my guilty pleasure
- Yeah I don't think so. They have different kinds of pizza in Italy. When I visited, I ate both kinds (as pictured and as you described). However, no sign of anything resembling Dominoes or frozen pizzas from the US. They were both delicious, but I prefer the slightly thicker and doughy crust seen in OP's picture.
- The one on the left was by an Italian in an Italian cultural zone known as new Amsterdam (fucking hipsters changing the names of everything).
  
  I'm Italian, can confirm that that pizza looks like a correct napolitan style pizza

If only the British were willing to share their culinary secrets and dental technology, many of the world's problems could be solved decisively.
- culinary secrets
  A crybaby yelling at people and offering galaxy brain advice like “limit the size of your menu, it keeps consistency up” and “clean daily”?
  dental technology
  You’ve seen those haggard chompers, it’s a miracle they don’t fall out or bite themselves comically whilst speaking. Imagine what people who gave a shit could do with that dental necromancy

- Seems normal to me, I can't order Domino's unless I'm fully nude.. phone or on person. Figured we all had that problem!
- Reddit taught me that’s the normal way to answer and the driver takes the view in lieu of a tip

This is pathetic
- L
  You should read Alberto Grandi. Broaden those horizons, just like the new world did for Italian food.

it’s funny how seriously people are taking this lol. good shitpost
- I think the downvotes are from how obstinate I’m being. I clearly marked it with a /s

Maybe it's different in the states, but Domino's is ridiculously overpriced for pizza in the UK (yes I know you can always find a voucher), you can get two neapolitan pizzas and change for the price of some of the pizzas on the Domino's menu.
Not really sure how they're still afloat over here simply beyond existing momentum
- I kinda dig the bland crust. Not for eating, but for not eating. Like, sometimes you'd rather your calories come from toppings, and saving the crust for the next day to dip in those shitty marinara cups when you're tired as hell is a good thing.
  Like, not often, but sometimes.
  Then again, we don't do pizza often, and it's usually when all adults are fucking wrecked via some bullshit or another that pushed us past our limits (both me and my wife are disabled, and my dad is old as fuck lol). If we want pizza to really enjoy I make it myself, or order it from the two yankees that set up a shop in town.
  
  Other than LC who is cheaper? Only a fool orders pizza without a coupon so I’m assuming that’s being taken into account given the prevalence (that’s part of their pricing strategy, it’s built in).
- I will copy my response to another poster:
  Can't speak for the US as a whole but everywhere I've lived Domino's is the cheapest. I can get a medium 2 topping pizza at dominoes for $6.99. We have 3 family run traditional pizza places within driving distance of where I live, for a 2 topping medium pizza they cost: $14.75, $15.99, or $18.99.
- It's like that in the US too. I'm not a coupon person but I use an online coupon (it's under Deals or something) every time with Dominoes.
- Yeah it's definitely not the cheap option but it's still nice to have occasionally
- there is an authentic italian pizza place around the corner from me where I can get two 16 inch peporoni pizzas for 15 quid which are 20xs better than the slop dominos provides
  Imagine actually eating dominos when you have NY american pizza avilable lmao

Domino's crust is always covered with a layer of nasty gritty powder, even if I tell them to not season the crust.
- it's the cornmeal they use to keep it from sticking during prep
  
  That's what they want you to think
  
  Uh, I'm pretty sure it's baby powder.
- Yeah that's not seasoning, that's corneal. Unless you mean the edges? Then that's their fake parmesan.
- Corn flour? Lol

Baffled at the plenty of toppings and lots of cheese notes. Maybe it’s just Dominoes in Canada but I’m fairly certain there’s less cardboard in the box it came in. To each their own I guess.
- different supplier than the supply region I’m in, so I’ll take your word for it.
  Maybe it’s part of the MAID plan? Easier to convince people if they don’t have good cheese to remind them that it’s worth going on until that next greasy slice.

I know it's a meme, but this is a dumb take. You're comparing two very different things, and they serve two different purposes. Sometimes you want to crush some fast food at 2 am after drinking at the pub, sometimes you want to have really good pizza where less is more and the quality of the ingredients matter. Eat both and be happy you have pizza.
- That's the joke
- Really good pizza
  more bread than anything else
  Come on, we both know the toppings are the star of the show and bread is the delivery vehicle.
  See how thick that chonker on the left is? That’s because it has a higher bread to topping ratio.
  And people accuse Americans of wanting more sugar. WHAT DOES BREAD TURN INTO?

Both the same price.
Proper Italian pizza - Just a like a mamma used to make
Dominos - 50% shareholder profit, 50 disappointment

- Memes aside, Punjabi food is definitely in the top tier when it comes to styles of Indian food (and Indian food is top tier already).
- food of the peasants
  The ignorant peasants, yes. I can feed myself for two whole days off the price of a McDonald's combo meal these days.
  
  Eat the Mcslop citizen! A frugal wage-slave is bad for the economy, so do your part be precarious!

I always forget how good a genuine pizza is until I have it again

Pretty sure that 30 minutes or less thing hasn't been a thing in forever
- As with all retail, corporate accounts for people abusing the staff until the manager relents.
  Don’t do it obviously, Scaphism is sometimes justified, but you will get that free pizza.

I will doxx you to the mafia!

American here, Dominoes is effing disgusting.

I 100% unironically agree with this meme, and I worked in restaurants for years and ran one myself for a while.
- They didn't mention taste so I'll begrudgingly agree lol
  As far as taste though, Authentic messy bush leaf pizza > Domino's any day lol

a Domino's white sauce, spinach, and feta pizza fucking slaps. but Little Caesar's is cheaper than both, so 🤷🏼
- bless up

Yeah, Italian Pizza actually needs less time in the oven.
- Precisely, if you’re going to ruin good ingredients like that leave them raw.
  
  :D
  Honestly they turn the heat way up compared to American pizza, so it's faster but also burned in some spots :D

Please take pity on the Italians, they sent their best to America and now they are trying their best.
- I had to eat in that shitty country for a bit this summer, I will show them the kindness they showed me.